MAP OF THE WEEK RELEASE DATE: SOON

Edit: This is a community project. Please moderators, feel free to update this thread for me while I'm busy :P

Map of the week is a project where we all raise together a map called Map of the Week that uses the popularity of previous popular maps to help map makers to promote their new maps. The map changes to a new different map every week. If you made a map and you think it is fun to play, you can ask here for us to add your map into the map pool.

Mappers on the project:

You have to PM both publishers (on NA and EU) with the latest copy of your map. Publishers are trustable, but they will not be responsible if anything happens to your map.

Please send the map to the publishers at least 24 hours before the day your map gets published.

If your map has more than one game mode, you will have to choose one mode only.

The publisher will add a trigger to your map (event: map initialization. Action: create tip called "Map of the Week" that talks about the idea and lists previous and future maps). The publisher will also delete all the other game modes and change the name of the chosen game mode to the original name of the map. The category will also be changed to "SC2Mapster."

We know the loading screen is something very personal and part of the design of your map. So, we won't change or force you to change it, but it is good if you use your loading screen to talk about the Map of the Week program, ask for some map support, or promote the next map to come.

You need a commitment to the Map of the Week and that includes playing it for a fair amount of time during many weeks, promoting it in several ways, and playing it on the release date to make it popular.

Your map will stay a week on the Map of the Week, but the publisher can remove it at anytime if the map's popularity is going downhill. Maps that were removed before a week can be published again another time if the community wants it again (use this thread to discuss removed maps).

Melee maps aren't popular enough to keep the Map of the Week at the top. But, I see no problem on having your melee map inside an 1v1Obs map, such as iCJug.

Your map can be published more than once in different weeks at anytime until you request to leave the Map of the Week program.

Others who like the project and want to help promoting it:

Publishers:

Publishers will receive the maps, add the Map of the Week trigger, change the category to "SC2Mapster" and the game mode to the name of the map. Then, they will publish the map on its publishing date with the name "Map of the Week," which will replace the old Map of the Week keeping the popularity of the previous map. They have an important role of publishing the map on the date and keeping track of the popularity of the Map of the Week. If the popularity is going downhill, the current map has to be instantly changed to the previous or next week's map.

Publishing dates:

Watermelon:

The Map of the Week is an opportunity for mappers to promote their maps. Being featured on the top for a week might allow mappers to form their own community ready to play their maps when they finally publish them with their real name. Also, once Map of the Week gets popular, many new mappers will come to SC2Mapster to join the project. That will make the mapping community stronger. Please, help us to promote this project. Players will love the Map of the Week because it's an opportunity to play different maps every week (pretty much like the Fun or Not system).

According to TacoManStan, this project:

Unify the SC2 custom game and mapping community.

Create a motive for old mappers to come back, and new mappers to start mapping.

Allow for fun but hidden maps to be heard.

Allow for SC2Mapster to gain some more press.

This is a community project, so please, make all your suggestions. I will keep updating this thread with more information. I am looking forward to seeing new volunteers willing to share their maps, help publishing, or promoting the Map of the Week. :)

Everyone who is officially supporting this project will be PMed close to the release date.

Are we actually going to vote whether a map is good enough to be published? Or just putting any map submitted by a User here on there?

I will add on the list all the maps the makers want me to add, but it's the community decision to add them on one of the available weeks. There will be a pool where we will vote which map will be on each week (1st pool: 1st week and so on).

Ill certainly play the maps and get my friends to play them, so you can add me to the list if you want :D Also, I have a map I've been working on that's not really close to release at this point, but sometime in the next 6 months it should be ready and id love to add it to the pool then.

At the start of the map we should as some fancy map of the week graphic and promotion, before starting the map. I don't think a new loading screen is necessary, but the hint should be something to do with the map of the week program.

I'll help to promote this initiative. But I won't be able to login in late August.

You can add CoreFight to the map list, although maybe we should wait until version 3 is released, for better polishing and balancement.

Catalyst by Eiviyn could be a good option for the first map. People loved it when it reached top 1 some time ago.

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The publisher will add a trigger to your map (event: map initialization. Action: create tip called "Map of the Week" that talks about the idea and lists previous and future maps). The publisher will also delete all the other game modes and change the name of the chosen game mode to the original name of the map. The category will also be changed to "SC2Mapster."

I don't use triggers in my map, but an obfuscated script, and I think some of us do the same. Publisher should better give us his tip trigger so we can properly add it to our maps.

I'm not sure, but I think that if you change the map name or the mode of a map, its popularity gets reseted.